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Hamilton-Jacobi formulation for singular systems with second order Lagrangians

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

Recently the Hamilton-Jacobi formulation for first order constrained systems has been developed. In such formalism the equations of motion are written as total differential equations in many variables. We generalize the Hamilton-Jacobi formulation for singular systems with second order Lagrangians and apply this new formulation to Podolsky electrodynamics, comparing with the results obtained through Dirac's method.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9512099,
  title  = {Hamilton-Jacobi formulation for singular systems with second order Lagrangians},
  author = {B. M. Pimentel and R. G. Teixeira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9512099},
  year   = {2008}
}

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Latex, 21 pages, no figures (Changes made to solve problems, caused by a macro, that some users had to Tex the paper. The paper itself has no changes.)

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